Barbara D. Livingston Calvin Borel celebrates abord Mine That Bird after their stunning 50-1 victory in Saturday's 135th Kentucky Derby. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Bennie Woolley Jr. was running a ...

Calvin Borel was in a familiar place, along the rail and urging Mine That Bird to fly through the mud. Trainer Bennie Woolley Jr. was someplace he never imagined — the Kentucky Derby, with his horse ...

The American Thoroughbred racehorse, Mine That Bird’s 50–1 Kentucky Derby victory in 2009, shocked the horse racing world, becoming one of the most enduring underdog stories in sports. Now, renewed ...

Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird is in need of yet another jockey. Mike Smith, who rode the gelding to a second-place finish in Saturday's Preakness Stakes, won't ride him in the Belmont Stakes on ...

JT KeithAlamogordo Newsjtkeith@elrtiomedia.com A little gelding from Roswell, New Mexico, once stunned the racing world. In 2009, Mine That Bird came roaring up the rail from nearly 30 lengths back, ...

Sunland Park, April 5, $175,000 guaranteed, value of race $175,000, 3-year-olds, 121 pounds, 9 furlongs, 1:51.63 (track record, 1:46.94), track fast.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - May 2, 2009 Together they pulled off one of the greatest upsets in 135 years of America's most famous horse race. "It was a Street Sense move," Borel said Saturday, referring to ...